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alex wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Ive tried very hard to get Half-Life to run on my
Linux box...and I have
<br>finally managed to get it to work...the problem (the BIG problem)
was
<br>that I was trying to use an installed version of windows as the
<br>basis of wine. It worked fine with most programs...but not Half-Life
and
<br>some other games...
<p>My recommendation is that you dont use a preinstalled version of windows
<br>as the basis of a wine installation...
<p>So when you install wine make sure you have umounted all your windows
<br>partitions with a with windows-os directory. Thats it I guess...and
besides
<br>you can includes these drives at a latter stage in your
<br>.wine/config file anyways.
<p>Also as I have bought the latest generations edition of Half-Life so
I can
<br>tell you that the standalone Counterstrike game worked fine too...I
have
<br>not yet tried Opposing Forces or Team Fortress...
<p>kind regards
<br>//Alex
<p>ps. I guess that this tip could apply to other games as well....:)</blockquote>
Hey Alex..
<br>That is probably the single most useful tip I have yet come across
in this group..THANK YOU !!
<br>I've spent countless hours frigging around with HalfLife with little
to no success.. I followed your advise and everything now works flawlessly.
<br>The 1104 patch was necessary for OpenGL to work. It had almost reached
the point of obsession trying to de-bug my old setup and it's incredible
how smoothly everything went with a dummy windows directory. Can you say
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/win98 ?! Yippee. SOF and everything else I've tried runs
great as well.
<br>Thanks again.
<p>Jim
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Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax N.S. Canada
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